The Algemeiner reports: President-elect Donald Trump “believes strongly in Jewish values and he’s a man who believes strongly in Israel,” a prominent American Jewish leader said during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show on Wednesday.

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder — who has known Trump since they both studied at the University of Pennyslvania’s Wharton School of Business five decades ago – noted, “I was shocked during the time of the election, when people were talking about him [Trump] being antisemitic. There’s not an antisemitic bone in his body.”

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Trump’s political opponents, Lauder stated, “wanted to make [him] something he wasn’t.”